On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 13:56 -0700, jdow wrote: > On 2011/10/13 05:43, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 04:50 -0700, jdow wrote: > > > >> Thank you, sir. I'll check [getmail] out. RPM Forge has a suitable > >> package for SL6.1. > >> > > Look at your distro's repo first: its a Fedora supported package, so I'd > > expect other distros to include it too. > > I am canny enough for that. I ran "yum list getmail" and since rpmforge > is enabled that one popped up. It MAY be the latest. SL6.1 is basically > RHEL 6.1. > OK. I'm running getmail 4.20.0, which is latest for Fedora 13 - I know, my mail server need a distro upodate. Maybe next week if the weather is bad.
> Yeah, I notice you cheat about as badly as I do. > :-) ...and anyway, if you're sitting behind fetchmail or getmail you MUST accept all mail that gets that far, so about all you can go with spam is bin or quarantine it. As it happens, I recently wrote PHP tool that lists all quarantined mail and lets me inspect it. I also have a cron job that bins quarantined mail thats over 'n' days old and spamkiller's rejections get logged and included in the daily logwatch report. > It works and I can see how. > I'd still go through procmail to the mail spool. We pick it up using DoveCot > for POP3(S) and IMAP(S). POP3 is delivery. IMAP is "feed it back to be learned > as spam." > Each to their own. I pass everything through Postfix as my MTA because it has an 'always_bcc' directive that copies all incoming and outgoing messages to my mail archive. I also wrote an SA plugin that whitelists all messages sent by somebody that the mail archive knows I've sent mail to. So what goes round comes round. Martin
